Fabricant , Nicole

Socialism from Below? Bolivia in an Age of Extractivism

by Bret Gustafson and Nicole Fabricant

Summer 2017

Bolivia received global attention for its anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist social movements in the twenty-first century. Best known perhaps were the Water Wars, against water privatization, in 2000 and the Gas Wars, demanding nationalization of the gas industry, in 2003. These rebellions entailed a radical rethinking of natural resource use and distribution.